mollusk
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To avoid being eaten, the mollusk hides with its transparent body and makes a quick escape by quickly closing its oral hood, similar to the movements of a jellyfish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
The high presence of hearths and mollusk and fish remains in the middens suggests that the area was used for the processing and consumption of marine resources.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
The oyster farmer, Will Peckham, 31, for example, left a job in corporate finance in the city to start West Robins Oyster Co., a mollusk farm in Peconic Bay about seven years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2023
There were little pieces of ancient sea urchins in my hand, mollusk shells.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Scientists commonly interpret it as an early relative of mollusks.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
A radioactive wasp’s nest was found at a decommissioned nuclear worksite in South Carolina, and a thriving community of tube worms and mollusks was located at the bottom of deep-sea trenches in the Pacific.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025
But as it turns out, one group of marine mollusks was way ahead of us.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
The mollusks are efficient filter feeders and can increase the clarity of water by consuming large quantities of plankton, which native fish and other creatures depend on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
At the end of the corridor, long strands of shells hang in an arched doorway, the mollusks separated by odd-shaped bits of polished onyx.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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